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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It depends on how nearsighted you are. If you have something like -5 you’ll still notice being nearsighted, whereas someone with only -1.5 might suddenly experience seeing perfectly.

    It’s because the refractive index of water is different than air. Also, the pressure has an effect on the eye, changing the default focus. Finally you’ll also have a more narrow vision from goggles or from squinting, which itself helps focus ever so slightly.

    If you’re in a pool there’s not a whole lot of details to look at to begin with and we’re not terrible good at judging distances under water anyway. So the whole experience is different and difficult to compare to normal vision.

    If you do get goggles with lenses you might want to choose a correction that is a few points under your normal glasses because the water gives you one for free.




  • I have my ordinary plates and glasses in such a cabinet. It has the perfect size for just that. What a coincidence huh?

    But seriously though, that is the reason. I ran out of space in the larger cabinets, and to minimize the use of floor space, I got one of those. They’re like half the depth of other kitchen cabinets.

    I don’t have any fine china or silverware on display though.





  • If you nitpick your own suggestions the same way, you’ll find that nuclear weapons were made by Germans in America and that rock music is a rip off of blues which is from Africa, and so on.

    All inventions are based on knowledge that comes from somewhere else. It’s the exchange of knowledge that pushes inventions forward. It is very rarely the country of where that person had his or her ass situated at the time of the patent application that caused the invention.




  • It’s Will Forte in the role of Phil Tandy Miller in the tv-series The Last Man on Earth, in which he uses the “I hardly knew her” joke intensively.m throughout the series.

    At first it’s corny because it’s a poor joke, but then he keeps doing it, so it becomes annoying, but then he keeps doing it, so it becomes funny, but then he keeps doing it, so it becomes annoying again.